Tripod Astrophotography - Glenn Wester
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The document provides instructions for photographing star trails and the Milky Way galaxy using a DSLR camera on a tripod. It explains how to set the camera to manual mode, select high ISO and aperture settings, and focus on a bright star or planet. It also discusses how to locate the North Star and describes techniques for minimizing light pollution such as using a light pollution filter or traveling to a dark site away from cities.
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Tripod Astrophotography - Glenn Wester
- 3. What you’ll learn in the next 400,000ms (~6min): -Camera Settings -How to find the North Star -How to compose and photograph: Star Trails (think Starry Night) Milky Way
- 4. Need this to get started! • Cheap Tripod • Any DSLR • Interval Timer Trigger (optional)
- 5. Star TrailsRecipe Set camera mode => Manual Quality => JPEG or RAW Set camera lens => MF Manual Focus VR Off White Balance => Auto ISO => 800-4000 Aperture => ~f/1.8 - f/4.0 Shutter => ‘Bulb’
- 6. FOCUS (to infinity) Use LiveView function to focus on the brightest object (Planet or bright star) to get your camera focused
- 9. • START => Activate the timer trigger, camera starts Create a movie file out of still images in video-editing software Open media as “Image-Sequence”, playback at @24fps or 30fps Star Trail Photograph Single Frame
- 10. • Stack them in Photoshop using the “muchStars.atn” action-script file, just point it at your folder of images
- 12. L I G H T P O L L U T I O N x__X
- 14. Dealing with light pollution • Light Pollution Filter - filters out the wavelength of light emitted by sodium halide lamps (yellow city lights) • Go on a camping trip :)
- 20. </talk >